{"id":19408,"date":"2016-06-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19408"},"modified":"2016-06-23T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:39:45","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-moscow-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-moscow-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Moscow 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019ve just posted yet another excellent recording by Jim Jordan<\/a> to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. This Cold War recording of Radio Moscow dates back to September 19, 1984.<\/p>\n

Jim notes:<\/p>\n

A nice Cold War piece from Radio Moscow on the double defection of the Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov. The real story behind it was revealed ten years later [click here to read article<\/a>].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, check out this short mention in the Ukrainian Weekly:<\/p>\n

\"THE<\/a>

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4,1984<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim’s\u00a0recording was made using a National Panasonic RF-2200 tuned to 9.5 MHz around 08:10 UTC. The location was South Shields, UK.<\/p>\n

Click here to download as a (mono) MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/MoscowBitov\/moscow%20bitov.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

You can listen to more archived shortwave recordings at the SRAA website<\/a>, or by subscribing to the audio feed via iTunes<\/a>. You can also listen to the archive on TuneIn radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve just posted yet another excellent recording by Jim Jordan to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. This Cold War recording of Radio Moscow dates back to September 19, 1984. Jim notes: A nice Cold War piece from Radio Moscow on the double defection of the Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov. The real story behind it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,746,43],"tags":[752,5202,3835,768,5203,1957],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cold-war","tag-jim-jordan","tag-kgb","tag-radio-moscow","tag-spies","tag-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-532","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34825,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/shortwave-archive-1979-radio-moscow-mailbag-studio-recordings\/","url_meta":{"origin":19408,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Archive: 1979 Radio Moscow Mailbag Studio Recordings","author":"Thomas","date":"November 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've been a shortwave radio listener since the Cold War, you no doubt remember Radio Moscow's Mailbag program with\u00a0Joe Adamov. 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